Language and Gender Theory

Lackoff and 'womens language'

Womens interaction is different from mens. In the book 'language and a womens place' Lackoff put forward the idea that women have a particular variety of language and referenced womens subordinate role in society.

Women make the most effort in the conversation to encourage men to interact and the topic isnt always taken up by the male speaker.

- Can be seen as related to the dominance model

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Deborah Cameron and the myth of mars and venus

- Challenges the assertion put forward by many researchers that men and women are essentially different.

In the book titled 'The myth of mars and venus' in 2007, Cameron suggests that the idea of difference is misleading and, suggesting that there are more differences within genders rather than between them.